How Expensify is Building Bridges with OSS and React Native

Explore how Expensify is leveraging open-source software and React Native to build bridges in the developer community in this 20-minute conference talk from React Native EU 2023. Discover Expensify's mission to "Live Rich, Have Fun, Save the World" and learn how they're rebuilding their product as a next-gen collaboration tool with a fully open-source front-end. Gain insights into their open-source contribution program, including how external contributors can get paid, the various roles available, and lessons learned along the way. Understand how this approach aligns with Expensify's goal of building a community that empowers people to "Get Shit Done" while maintaining a tight-knit company culture. Delve into topics such as accessing specialized talent, scaling engineering capacity, and fostering communal ownership of dependencies to benefit the entire React Native ecosystem.

Intro
What is Expensify, anyways?
Expensify as a POC
Controlling the chaos
Bug reporting pipeline
Proposal process
Payment phase
Building community